After yesterday’s fiasco, where I got to the swimming pool only to find I’d left my swim bag at home, I was back to the pool this evening, making sure not to forget anything this time!
This was my first swim since last Monday night, just over a week, so I had fully intended to just stick to a nice leisurely 1km – 4 x 250m – which is my usual routine when I’ve taken a break.
But the pool was very crowded this evening with a bunch of (much!) younger people all swimming faster than me. They were all doing sprint intervals – 1 or 2 lengths at a time, followed by long rests. They were often not leaving much room to stop at the end of the lap, so once I got going, I just felt like I didn’t want to stop and stretched my first set to 500m.
The first half of the 500m I treated as a warm-up, and the second half I sped up considerably, buoyed along by the sprinters around me. I was pleased to see that I had plenty of energy to keep going and even pick up the pace.
The second 500m was also a bit faster than my norm as well.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the lane swimming sessions at my pool run for a full hour rather than the 45 minute sessions on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday so I knew I had plenty of time. Since I felt like I’d missed out on my swim yesterday, and I was feeling strong, I decided to do two more sets of 250m to make it a full 1.5km!
So that’s my first mile swim since starting back into swimming last year after a break! Yay me!
Between my fab weigh-in results earlier breaking through the 230lb barrier into the 220’s this has actually been a really good day!
Even though I have redundancy looming over me – as I said previously – controlling the things I can control definitely makes everything seem better!
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